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by **Alex Parfeno** » Wed, 09 Sep 1998 04:00:00

I have downloaded latest kernel source and i can't decompress it:
linux....tar.bz2 format confuses me. What do i do with bz2 extension?

Thans in advance,
Alex Parfenov

by **Thand** » Wed, 09 Sep 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>I have downloaded latest kernel source and i can't decompress it:
>linux....tar.bz2 format confuses me. What do i do with bz2 extension?

Use bzip - try www.freshmeat.net , they're bound to have it there
somewhere.

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by **Josh Joyc** » Wed, 09 Sep 1998 04:00:00

> >I have downloaded latest kernel source and i can't decompress it:
> >linux....tar.bz2 format confuses me. What do i do with bz2 extension?

> Use bzip - try www.freshmeat.net , they're bound to have it there
> somewhere.

Use bzip2

by **Hannes Faesterma** » Thu, 10 Sep 1998 04:00:00

On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 11:11:14 GMT,

>I have downloaded latest kernel source and i can't decompress it:
>linux....tar.bz2 format confuses me. What do i do with bz2 extension?

Check out <http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/>.
bzip2 is a relatively new compression program/algorithm which claims
to be more effective than GNU zip (and it is :-) ).

Hannes
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